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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2015 organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the Rectors' Conference of German Music Universities and the Berlin University of the Arts The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2015 will be held in the fields of viola,

Museums in Germany reported a total of 110,425,002 visits in 2013. This is the second-highest number of visits since the first complete survey began in 1981. Only in the previous year 2012 was the figure slightly higher (2.1 per cent). The 8,942 special exhibitions organised by German museums contri

The international conference "Cultural Property in Danger: Looted Excavations and Illegal Trade" ended on Friday in Berlin with an urgent appeal to curb illegal excavations and the associated systematic destruction of cultural treasures from human history worldwide. Speakers from all over the world

The international conference "Cultural Property in Danger: Looted Excavations and Illegal Trade" begins this Thursday at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. The two-day meeting of experts from Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique, Mexico, Greece and Germany is being organised by the Prussian Cu

Prof. Dr Bernhard Weisser will become Director of the Coin Cabinet of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage on 1 June 2015. This was decided unanimously by the SPK Foundation Board today. Weisser has been acting Director of the Coin Cabinet since the end of Prof. Dr Bernd Kluge

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has today restituted 13 volumes from the holdings of the Berlin State Library to the Jewish Community of Vienna (IKG Vienna). The volumes in question were published between 1840 and 1914. Four volumes were formerly owned by the Jewish Community, the other ni

Dr des. Andrea Schlosser was awarded this year's Ernst Waldschmidt Prize for her dissertation "On the Bodhisattva Path in Gandhāra. Edition of Fragment 4 and 11 from the Bajaur Collection of Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts". The prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, is awarded by the Ernst Waldschmidt Foundation a

The illegal trade in cultural property in Germany is the focus of the new ILLICID research project. Over the next three years, this dark field will be analysed in detail. According to international organisations, profits from the illegal trade in cultural goods are an important pillar of organised c

The world-famous environment "Das Kapital Raum 1970-1977" by Joseph Beuys, which is considered one of his key works, is coming to Berlin. The collector Erich Marx is donating the work to the collection of the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin as a permanent loan. The complex spatial

With today's launch of the new image portal of the picture agency bpk www.bpk-images.de, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is making a unique pool of high-quality images from the fields of art, culture and history available for commercial use. In the joint online shop of the world's most ren